So this last week we talked about qualitative and case study research. I thought it was interesting though hard to find both a qualitative and a case study research. Because my lack of information about case study research It took me longer to find that kind of research but on the seminar it was described more in detail what it really was about. Though I wish I had that information before I started to search on a paper with that specific criteria.
It was interesting to talk and se what kind of research everyone else had and though we (in our group) agreed on what qualitative and case study research was we had very different papers to present and it took some time to get the right definition down on paper.
I felt I learned more about case study research this week and it got me to understand how it can be useful, especially in this area that we study. And as discussed on the seminar not all research papers that say they are case studies are actually defined like it but it is some times hard to draw the line on what is a case study and what is not.
I will quickly say something about the course as a whole and I think its been really interesting though sometimes hard. I liked the seminars and how it helped us understand some of the topics in a better way. I feel like, even though I have had similar courses trough my bachelor studies this course has given me a more depth into what Research and Theory is and how to use methods in the right way. And it did help to know some of these things before hand because it helped when it came to searching for research and finding the right thing for the right theme.
At the end yesterday's seminar we asked Stefan about which are the main methodologies used at KTH and obviously he said it depends on the field of studies we are considering.
SvaraRaderaWhen talking about media technology we defined the qualitative research as the mainly used but also an increasing employment of multiple case studies to sketch patterns of a phenomenon.